Figure 5: Tide range and substrates of the marine species (shaded cell = potential presence; + = present; (+) = more rarely present; after Dupont 2006a).
SpeciesSubstrateTidal range
IntertidalEulittoral
High tide levelMiddle tide levelLow tide level
Littorina obtusata rocky   +  
Nucella lapillus   + +
Gibbula umbilicalis   + (+)
Aequipecten opercularis     (+) +
Barnea candida     + +
Mimachlamys varia     + +
Lacuna pallidula     + +
Ocenebra erinaceus     + +
Littorina littorea rocky to muddy-rocky + + + (+)
Mytilus edulis   + + +
Ostrea edulis     + +
Anomia ephippium     + +
Donax sp. sandy   + + +
Acanthocardia tuberculata     (+) +
Spisula solida     + +
Spisula sp.     + +
Donax vittatus     + +
Mactra sp.     + +
Bela powisiana     + +
Spisula subtruncata       +
Corbula gibba       +
Macoma balthica sandy to muddy-sandy   (+) + +
Ruditapes decussatus   + + +
Nassarius reticulatus   + + +
Cerastoderma edule   + + +
Abra sp.   + + +
Gari sp.     + +
Buccinum undatum     + +
Solen marginatus     + +
Phaxas pellucidus     (+) +
Epitonium clathrus       +
Scrobicularia plana muddy (+) + + (+)

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